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A creative tech enthusiast:
I build interactive systems where design and engineering meet.
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After building an edtech simulation tool to give students a path into robotics, I found a question that became mine: how to make robotics and technology more acessible through fun virtual experiences?
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At eighteen I started building sBotics: a small attempt to help kids who couldn't afford a robotics kit still learn and compete. To my surprise, it grew into the official simulated platform for the Brazilian Robotics Olympiad, reaching 5000 users over six years - and, along the way, my first papers (first author, Springer).
The tension
As it grew, some users felt my simulation wasn't as deterministic as the others. They had a fair point - but it also made me wonder whether that unpredictability was closer to reality, and whether that's part of what makes learning transfer to the real world. Without realizing it, I had wandered into what researchers call the reality gap.
The question
These days I'm trying to answer, more carefully, something I only sensed back then, in Human-Robot Interaction: when does a simulation faithfully predict how a person responds to a robot - and when does it quietly mislead us? I'm drawn to where HCI, simulation and games meet - not as a roboticist, but as someone curious about the interaction itself: how a machine speaks to a person, and how to make that legible, trustworthy, and maybe even a little fun.
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